“Isn't it crazy how anger sometimes feels like joy? Just a crash of blood through your heart.”

“It's amazing how a certain time in your life can seem to be a prelude, but when you look back, you realize it was a whole work, with a beginning, middle, and end.”

“So many land mines in this new territory called adulthood. Talent has a window. Freedom sometimes becomes a trap. We may die before we finish our dreams. Acutally, that we die is a pretty big surprise by itself. We can't spend innocence without accounting. Relationships are contracts. We partner not just for love but because we become too weak to make it alone.”

“My heart perceived wildernesses of contradictions and impossible truths and mystical lies.”

“She didn't tell me how to live, and I didn't tell her how to die. We let sleeping dogs lie.”

“New Year's Eve. It's a promise of a night. Single, married or widowed, in love, loveless or lovelorn, we all leave our apartments and pick through snow in high heels, or descend subway stairs in tuxedos, lured to wherever we're going--whether we know it or not, would deny it or not--by the kiss of a stranger.”

“The stuff that changes your life is never very dramatic. You know? Not to other people.”